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The Wall Street Journal Reviews Passion Week!
The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to portend another dose of the ensemble’s usual hieratic Byzantine and Russian
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Women in Sacred Chant: Past and Present
In tandem with the album launch for “Hymns of KassianÃ,” this panel highlighted two dimensions of women’s contributions to Christian sacred music: as composers and as performers (singers). This history has been often marginalized or even disregarded in general histories of Christianity, yet it has been – and continues to be– important to the continuing
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Excerpt of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week
—UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Read the review: The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to
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The 12 Days of Christmas in the East
The 12 Days of Christmas in the East Tour Cappella Romana Alexander LingasMusic Director and Founder Music director Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana in a joyful program of early and contemporary music from the Greek Orthodox tradition sung during the Twelve Days of Christmas. Medieval Byzantine chant, choral works by Greek Americans Frank Desby, Tikey
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Cappella Romana Brings Byzantine Chant to the Great Hall at the Hellenic Centre
Cappella Romana Brings Medieval Byzantine Chant to London Byzantine Chant Mini-Symposium & Recital at the Hellenic Centre The Hellenic Centre Cappella Romana, in collaboration with the School of Byzantine Music and the Archdiocese of Thyateira, presents a mini-symposium and recital of Byzantine chant. Leading liturgical scholars and musicologists from the UK and US discuss ‘The
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Watch Cappella Romana’s Twelfth Night Performance
Watch the full performance from the Twelfth Night Festival in New York City courtesy of Trinity Wall Street!
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Robert Kyr Receives Arts and Letters Award
A Time For Life composer Robert Kyr has been awarded the prestigious Arts and Letters Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award honors outstanding artistic achievement by a composer who has arrived at his or her own artistic voice. In addition to an honorarium, the award offers funds toward music
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Scholarship
Christians have worshipped primarily through the medium of song since Christian Antiquity, creating thereby spiritually and artistically rich traditions of liturgical singing that are comparable to iconography in their spiritual and artistic stature. It must be admitted, however, that the musical aspect of Orthodox and early Catholic traditions are poorly known and even less understood.
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Musical Style and Tradition in American Orthodox Churches: Chant and Polyphony
This webinar, “Musical Style and Tradition in American Orthodox Churches,” was hosted by Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center in a co-presentation with Cappella Romana. For centuries differences in musical style – especially the distinction between chant (unadorned melody) and polyphony (music sung in multiple parts) – have served Orthodox Christians as aural badges of
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Online Explorations
Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives Please join us for this webinar hosted by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center and presented in co-operation with Cappella Romana. It has often been asserted that it is the tradition of the Orthodox Church to worship in the local language. Yet the historical reality has been far more complex, with
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Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people
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Ave Maria: Program Notes
Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac were two Renaissance composers with two quite different characters, in music and in life. We know what Isaac’s signature looked like because he dutifully signed the account books as a musical servant of the Emperor Maximilian. We know what Josquin’s signature looked like because he carved it (not at
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